01/17/2012

So many passwords

How do you keep track of all your different passwords for the different internet sites out there? Eyewitness News wants to hear from you. Post your comments (below) and they could appear on Eyewitness News First at 4 p.m.

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Great suggestions from Lance, but not everyone is that tech-savvy, particularly older adults. Login Locker Password Organizer was created especially for those people. It is a low-tech solution to this high-tech problem. Plus, Login Locker offers suggestions to create secure passwords and to keep them safe.

3. Use the letters/initials of the website you are creating the password for.

Lets use the word 'banana' and the number '5'

Examples:

For Facebook: banana5fb
For Google: banana5g
For Twitter: banana5t

It's very simple to remember this way. You can even capitalize the first letter to make it an even stronger password. If you have to write down the MAIN word and number (just in case), it is still not your actual password because you didn't write down the letters following the number.

I have this fabulous tool called LogIn Locker that helps me remember them. It fits in my wallet and goes everywhere with me--it even had some hints about how to make up passwords that no one would guess. Everyone should have one. I got it on Amazon.com.

There are only a few I need daily and I memorize them. The others I keep in a file encrypted with pgp (Pretty good privacy) using a pass phrase I can remember. I generate the passwords from objects in my environment that only I would know are there.

We keep our passwords in a simple telephone book that you pick up at the stationary section of your local store (ex. facebook.com under the letter "f", user name, and password under it ). Make sure to use pencil because passwords can be changed easily.

I´m from Sao Paulo - Brazil.. and to keep track of all my passwords I try to join letters and numbers mixed from the people who make part of my life....it´s better to remeber them all. Thanks. Eliana Pavan. Kisses to Serge, in New York.